Category: Fer4

  • Typology for the Fourth

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 13th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) Amos 5:14-15, 21-24  Matthew 8:28-34 Et vota pinguium vestrorum non respiciam. Neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.  Iconoclasm is the breaking of icons. In modern usage it tends to be a good thing: destroying “sacred cows” of the…

  • This needn’t ever have happened.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for  in the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3  Matthew 7:15-20 Omnis arbor, quae non facit fructum bonum, excidetur, et in ignem mittetur. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. I’m having trouble finding it. It was this year’s “It’s…

  • Breaking up is Hard to Do.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 11th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14  Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Attendite ne justitiam vestram faciatis coram hominibus, ut videamini ab eis : alioquin mercedem non habebitis apud Patrem vestrum qui in caelis est. “Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen…

  • Brief thought on Elijah: Pick.

    TZzztztztzzzztztzztzttztzztzt CHUSHPOW ✙ JMJ The Readings for St Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church Wednesday in the 10th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) 1 Kings 18:20-39 Matthew 5:17-19 Usquequo claudicatis in duas partes? Si Dominus est Deus, sequimini eum : si autem Baal, sequimini illum. How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the…

  • Deus Vult!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the Week of Pentecost (B2) James 4:13-17 Mark 9:38-40 Si Dominus voluerit. Et : Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud.  If the Lord will, and if we shall live, we will do this or that. I watched the Pope Francis movie last Saturday. One of the things it did was…

  • May not be a Bruce Lee quote. But it’s true.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 7th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 20:28-38  John 17:11b-19 Non rogo ut tollas eos de mundo, sed ut serves eos a malo.I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil. There’s this great line in St Catherine’s…

  • I am divine, you are dibranches.

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 5th Week of Easter (B2) St Athanasius, BDC Acts 15:1-6  John 15:1-8 Omnem palmitem in me non ferentem fructum, tollet eum, et omnem qui fert fructum, purgabit eum, ut fructum plus afferat.Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that…

  • Verba Vitae

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 2nd Wednesday of Easter (B2) Acts 5:17-26  John 3:16-21 Ite, et stantes loquimini in templo plebi omnia verba vitae hujus. Go, and standing speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life. What are omnia verba vitae hujus? What are all the words of this life? Is this…

  • Pray the Day Away

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 3:1-10  Luke 24:13-35 Argentum et aurum non est mihi : quod autem habeo, hoc tibi do .Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give thee.In a funny book from 1987 called Life: A Warning, by Stephanie Brush, a lacklustre sequel to…

  • Like a Swiss Army Knife

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 4th Week of Lent (B2) Isaiah 49:8-15  John 5:17-30 Dedi te in foedus populi, ut suscitares terram, et possideres haereditates dissipatas; ut diceres his qui vincti sunt : Exite; et his qui in tenebris : Revelamini. Super vias pascentur, et in omnibus planis pascua eorum.[I have] given thee to…

  • You want fries with that?

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 3rd Week of Lent (B2) Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 Matthew 5:17-19 Nolite putare quoniam veni solvere legem, aut prophetas : non veni solvere, sed adimplere.Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. It’s Lent, so…

  • Can we? Yes we can!

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Lent (B2) Jeremiah 18:18-20 Matthew 20:17-28 Ecce ascendimus Jerosolymam, et Filius hominis tradetur principibus sacerdotum, et scribis, et condemnabunt eum morte, et tradent eum gentibus ad illudendum, et flagellandum, et crucifigendum…Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to…

  • Whales Tales

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for Wednesday in the 1st Week of Lent (B2) Jonas 3:1-10 Luke 11:29-32 Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam secundo.And the word of the Lord came to Jonas the second time.The first words in the Book of the Prophet Jonas are “Et factum est verbum Domini ad Jonam…” and there…

  • Unto the Beasts that Perish

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the 5th Wednesday of Ordinary Time (B2) I Kings 10:1-10  Mark 7:14-23 Omnia haec mala ab intus procedunt, et communicant hominem.All these evil things come from within, and defile a man. In the world of Middle Earth, every race has their own language: there’s dwarvish, two different elvishes, orkish, something called…

  • The Prison of Our Minds

    ✙ JMJ The Readings for the Memorial of St John Bosco Wednesday, 4th Week of Ordinary Time (B2) II Samuel 24:2, 9-17 Mark 6:1-6 Et non poterat ibi virtutem ullam facere, nisi paucos infirmos impositis manibus curavit, et mirabatur propter incredulitatem eorum.And he could not do any miracles there, only that he cured a few…